Better Dead Than Drafted

Better Dead Than Drafted

Better Dead Than Drafted

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Better Dead Than Drafted

2025

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Yonatan, an ultra-Orthodox young man protesting against conscription into the IDF, offering his perspective on the yeshiva, the conscription, and socks.

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